Amity Thompson
Acute Care · Ocean Springs, MSNPI 1750621900
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,405 of the $5,420 with a category attached, or 81.3%. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Artivion, Inc. at 25.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,445 and has fallen 85.1% since, to $364 in 2025. Among acute care clinicians in MS with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 137 payments — averaging $39.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Artivion, Inc.$1K
- Abiomed$770
- Boston Scientific$651
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$600
- Edwards Lifesciences$365
- Atricure, Inc.$274
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,01519%
- Food & beverage$4,40581%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Artivion, Inc. | 6 | $1,405 |
| Abiomed | 20 | $770 |
| Boston Scientific | 14 | $651 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 37 | $600 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 4 | $365 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 14 | $274 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $198 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $177 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $135 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $122 |
| Merck | 5 | $114 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $106 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 3 | $71 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 2 | $46 |
| Werfen USA LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $23 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $21 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $15 |
| BD | 1 | $13 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $13 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$5,420 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 223 acute care providers in Mississippi.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 20 | $301 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 18 | $164 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 11 | $88 |
| Potassium Chloride | 16 | $85 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 15 | $58 |
| Furosemide | 17 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other acute care in Ocean Springs
- Kathleen ArnoldOcean Springs$217K
- Jamie DamicoOcean Springs$17K
- Savannah McDanielOcean Springs$5K
- Paige PowellOcean Springs$3K
- Laresa NewtonOcean Springs$2K
- Christopher BellTupelo$348K
- Gavin GistOxford$42K
- Dylan BoydHattiesburg$15K
- Melinda ClarkStarkville$14K
- Michelle TaylorGulfport$13K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.